BAFTA Award for Best British Screenplay

The BAFTA Award for Best British Screenplay was a British Academy Film Award from 1954 to 1967.

1950s

1954

The Young Lovers – George Tabori, Robin Estridge

• The Divided Heart – Jack Whittingham
• Doctor in the House – Nicholas Phipps
• Hobson's Choice – David Lean, Norman Spencer, and Wynyard Browne
• The Maggie – William Rose
• Monsieur Ripois – Hugh Mills and René Clément
• The Purple Plain – Eric Ambler
• Romeo and Juliet – Renato Castellani

1955

The Ladykillers – William Rose

• The Constant Husband – Sidney Gilliat and Val Valentine
• The Dam Busters – R. C. Sherriff
• The Deep Blue Sea – Terence Rattigan
• Doctor at Sea – Nicholas Phipps and Jack Davies
• The Night My Number Came Up – R. C. Sherriff
• The Prisoner – Bridget Boland
• Touch and Go – William Rose

1956

The Man Who Never Was – Nigel Balchin

• The Battle of the River Plate – Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
• The Green Man – Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder
• Private's Progress – Frank Harvey and John Boulting
• Reach for the Sky – Lewis Gilbert
• Smiley – Moore Raymond and Anthony Kimmins
• Three Men in a Boat – Hubert Gregg and Vernon Harris
• A Town Like Alice – W. P. Lipscomb and Richard Mason
• Yield to the Night – John Cresswell and Joan Henry

1957

The Bridge on the River Kwai – Pierre Boulle

• Anastasia – Arthur Laurents
• The Birthday Present – Jack Whittingham
• Hell Drivers – John Kruse and Cy Endfield
• The Man in the Sky – William Rose and John Eldridge
• The Prince and the Showgirl – Terence Rattigan
• The Smallest Show on Earth – William Rose and John Eldridge
• The Story of Esther Costello – Charles Kaufman
• Windom's Way – Jill Craigie
• Woman in a Dressing Gown – Ted Willis

1958

Orders to Kill – Paul Dehn

• Bonjour Tristesse - Arthur Laurents
• A Cry from the Streets - Vernon Harris
• Ice Cold in Alex - T. J. Morrison
• Indiscreet - Norman Krasna
• The Inn of the Sixth Happiness - Isobel Lennart
• The Key - Carl Foreman
• The Man Upstairs - Alun Falconer
• A Night To Remember - Eric Ambler
• Violent Playground - James Kennaway

1959

I'm All Right Jack – Frank Harvey, John Boulting, and Alan Hackney

• Blind Date – Ben Barzman and Millard Lampell
• Expresso Bongo – Wolf Mankowitz
• The Horse's Mouth – Alec Guinness
• Look Back in Anger – Nigel Kneale
• No Trees in the Street – Ted Willis
• North West Frontier – Robin Estridge
• Sapphire – Janet Green
• Tiger Bay – John Hawkesworth and Shelley Smith

1960s

1960

The Angry Silence – Bryan Forbes

• The Day They Robbed the Bank of England – Howard Clewes
• The Entertainer – John Osborne and Nigel Kneale
• Hell Is a City – Val Guest
• The League of Gentlemen – Bryan Forbes
• The Millionairess – Wolf Mankowitz
• Saturday Night and Sunday Morning – Alan Sillitoe
• A Touch of Larceny – Roger MacDougall, Guy Hamilton, and Ivan Foxwell
• The Trials of Oscar Wilde – Ken Hughes
• Tunes of Glory – James Kennaway

1961

The Day the Earth Caught Fire – Wolf Mankowitz and Val Guest (TIE)
A Taste of Honey – Shelagh Delaney and Tony Richardson (TIE)

• Flame in the Streets – Ted Willis
• The Guns of Navarone – Carl Foreman
• Victim – Janet Green and John McCormick
• Whistle Down the Wind – Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall

1962

Lawrence of Arabia – Robert Bolt

• Billy Budd – Peter Ustinov and DeWitt Bodeen
• A Kind of Loving – Willis Hall and Keith Waterhouse
• Only Two Can Play – Bryan Forbes
• Tiara Tahiti – Geoffrey Cotterell and Ivan Foxwell
• Waltz of the Toreadors – Wolf Mankowitz

1963

Tom Jones – John Osborne

• Billy Liar – Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall
• The Servant – Harold Pinter
• This Sporting Life – David Storey

1964

The Pumpkin Eater – Harold Pinter

• Becket – Edward Anhalt
• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb – Stanley Kubrick, Peter George, and Terry Southern
• Séance on a Wet Afternoon – Bryan Forbes

1965

Darling – Frederic Raphael

• The Hill – Ray Rigby
• The Ipcress File – Bill Canaway and James Doran
• The Knack ...and How to Get It – Charles Wood

1966

Morgan! – David Mercer

• Alfie – Bill Naughton
• It Happened Here – Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo
• The Quiller Memorandum – Harold Pinter

1967

A Man for All Seasons – Robert Bolt

• Accident – Harold Pinter
• The Deadly Affair – Paul Dehn
• Two for the Road – Frederic Raphael